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Thursday, April 21, 2005
A Nice Warm Day
TV weatherman chirped, "Well, we finally had a nice warm day after this whole miserably cold spring." He meant yesterday, a day so hot that my hanging baskets of pansies collapsed into drizzles of potential compost, a ninety-degree day. This morning I got up before sunrise, took down the pansy baskets, drenched them repeatedly with cold water and left them out of the sun. Later I had to run Pork Chop to her beauty salon appointment (bath, ears, nails). A quick check on my way showed the pansies staggering back up to their feet. After Pork Chop got home again all cute and smelling good, I gave the pansies one more cold drink and rehung them. Waiting for Pork Chop's appointment to happen, I grocery shopped, then drove around the streets in my area, places I haven't yet seen. What a marvelous array of flowers everywhere; wisteria, pink dogwood, white dogwood, forsythia, magnolia, camellia, fruit tree blossoms, azalias in all colors, annuals, perennials, all these as well as flowering trees, bushes and plants which I do not yet recognize. This is my first spring as a southerner and I am dumbfounded at the wall-to-wall flowers, flowers everywhere. In addition to appreciating flowers, I enjoyed the houses. Yes, most of them are old and falling apart, but the variety of architecture makes each street interesting, a mixture of humble homes and mansions. Everywhere I looked, homes were in process of being fixed/and/or/painted. I followed the street Pork Chop and I use for her daily walks, went all the way down to the tidal basin and then came back by the water. I understand why these old wrecked dwellings sell so high...the big trees, beautifully landscaped yards, various architecture, and the views of boats on the water. Just across the inlet a popular lunch spot yielded gusts of rowdy laughter from early lunch patrons eating outside in the sunshine of another 'nice warm day'.
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